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Dallas’ police oversight office is investigating four officers caught on video laughing about a disabled military veteran who urinated on himself after he was denied access to a restroom at a Deep Ellum restaurant. The Dallas veteran, Dynell Lane, told oversight members two uniformed off-duty Dallas police officers working security at Serious Pizza refused to review his medical paperwork around 2:15 …

A summertime cold front moved into North Texas Monday. This front will bring a brief break from the searing heat for a couple of days. Highs Tuesday and Wednesday will be in the 90s with lows in the 60s and 70s. Unfortunately the heat will return by Thursday. Highs will be record or near-record on Thursday ranging from 104 to …

Three North Texas cities were recently recognized as some of the most likely places drivers will be involved in a car crash. Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington have some of the highest rates of collisions in a city per year, according to a new report. Forbes Advisor published the report using information on collision locations across the United States from the National …

WASHINGTON — Body camera footage shows sheriff’s deputies face plant and handcuff Amarillo Rep. Ronny Jackson after he squabbled with a state trooper at a West Texas rodeo. It shows the two-term Republican congressman — a former White House physician and retired rear admiral — trying to help a teenage girl who’d suffered a seizure, then getting irate and unleashing a …

Collin County commissioners at a budget workshop on Monday began crunching numbers and hearing department wish lists as they face costs associated with a growing population. The first of the financial presentations by staff laid out an expenditure budget of $442.7 million, a number likely to change as the workshop continues into the week. Last year, the county adopted a $434.8 …

ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump and several allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday, accused of scheming to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. It’s the fourth criminal case to be brought against the former president and the second to allege that he tried to subvert the results of the vote. The Fulton County grand jury indictment …

Lawrence Holloway always seemed to be in the kitchen. The 19-year-old would sit at the dining table in his mother’s Fort Worth home with a cell phone — one of many he had collected — in front of him, thoughtfully taking the pieces apart and putting them back together. He made it look easy, Latacha Romar, his mother, remembers. She …

The rollout of Dallas County’s new payroll software system — which has left employees and vendors unpaid or inaccurately paid for months — has been deemed “one of the worst that I’ve encountered” by an independent consultant. The consultant, former DART interim president/executive director and ex-CFO David Leininger, told county commissioners at the Continuous Improvement Committee meeting on Monday that …

McKinney’s City Manager is proposing a $849 million total budget for fiscal year 2024 which includes $202.6 million in the general fund and a decrease in the city’s property tax rate by 3 cents — from $0.457485 to $0.427513 per $100 valuation. The proposed budget also includes increased water and wastewater rates, new public safety jobs and funding for some capital …

David Thompson looked out over his front pasture at the end of July and saw two young men placing stakes in the path where he was planning to bale hay later that day. “What are y’all doing?” he asked The surveyors were marking the proposed right-of-way — which allows individuals to travel along a specific route on property belonging to …